Honestly, maybe the reason why elections are always so split nowadays is because the public is less politically informed. So their views are just standard bell curve variation, which cuts down the middle. This would invalidate the premise that immigration can make more Democrat voters. The election is always going to be 50/50 because nobody even knows what the hell is going on. If you have two retard candidates that people are ambiguous about, it doesn’t matter what the incentives are. Uninformed voters don’t know and don’t care. This is reflected in the total overall expression.
When it’s your turn to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar, you can cheat by finding the average of all the guesses. This is what is known as the ‘wisdom of the crowd.’ if you create an average of everyone’s political sentiment, you get “durr I dunno.” What do we know about confused and ignorant people? They’re very suggestible.
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Both books I wrote a superbly documented, as heavily as the comments I have made in this forum.
I think the incentives built around the two-party system, and the idea of democracy more generally, create a constant convergence towards centrist politics. As dissidents, we naturally understand this to mean “passive” or “complacent” politics, in other words: nominally centrist, but really a constant moderate movement/progression towards the aims of whichever subset of elites happens to have bought out the given election.
The 50-50 split is also exacerbated by the increased sense of participation that people (which, as you point out, are ill-informed at best) now experience because of social media. Everyone has a take, everyone thinks they know, and everyone, technically yet unfortunately, gets a say. People are made to fight over hammed up differences, and they get caught up in the drama of red team vs. blue team, and this is intended to distract from the reality that both teams are owned by elites whose interests may differ in the details but ultimately move society in the same general direction. Think “leftist Zionists supporting the Dems vs. neocon Zionists supporting the Republicans”.
Immigrants may come in and default to blue, which is the default “pro-immigrant” team, but after a few generations, the more “assimilable” demographics, such as Hispanics or Christian Arabs, will split all the same, as nativist feelings (associated with support for red) inevitably develop.
Time to go to direct democracy. Every citizen participates in the government decision making by way of a smart phone app.
